Android
Android 12 Beta 5
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering We’re just a few weeks away from the official release of Android 12! As we put the finishing touches on the new version of Android, today we’re bringing Read more…
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The Series One Desk 27 is a $2,000 Google Meet machine that doubles as a laptop monitor
The Series One Desk 27 Google is announcing two new hardware devices designed specifically to work with Google Meet and to look like Google hardware. The Series One Desk 27 and Series One Board 65 Read more…
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The Gmail app takes calls now, too, because Google wants it to do everything
The new Gmail design, with Google Spaces. | Image: Google Google is announcing even more Workspace features today, part of an increased cadence of changes to the company’s office and communications software suite over the Read more…
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Lenovo is rebooting its Chromebook Duet with a 13.3-inch OLED screen
Here’s the Chromebook Duet 5 in “storm grey.” | Image: Lenovo Over a year after it was unveiled, Lenovo’s category-defining Chromebook Duet is getting a sequel. The Chromebook Duet 5 (branded as the IdeaPad Duet Read more…
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Accelerated Kotlin build times with Kotlin Symbol Processing 1.0
Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang, Software Engineer and Jiaxiang Chen, Software Engineer Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP), our new tool for building lightweight compiler plugins in Kotlin, is now stable! KSP offers similar functionality to the Kotlin Read more…
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Celebrating some of the best indie games
Posted by Patricia Correa, Director, Global Developer Marketing In June this year we opened applications for our Indie Games Accelerator, a mentorship program to help top mobile game startups achieve their full potential, as well Read more…
Android
The best Labor Day deals happening now
Last year’s M1 MacBook Air is just one of many items on sale this Labor Day weekend. Labor Day deals are now in full swing, with a slew of notable discounts available on some major Read more…
Android
You can now migrate your WhatsApp chats from an iPhone to a new Samsung phone
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WhatsApp has added the ability for users to migrate their chat history when switching from iOS to Samsung Android devices, the company said in a blog post. Samsung Read more…
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How Android 12 lets you customize your phone’s color palette
Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge One of the new features in Android 12 is the ability to automatically fit your phone’s color palette to that of your wallpaper. If you’ve been able to Read more…
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Raising the quality bar with updated guidelines for Wear OS 3.0
Posted by Marcus Leal, Senior Product Manager for Google Play Store Our Modern Android Developer tools and APIs are designed to help you build high quality apps your users love, and this extends to form Read more…